Question

A nursing instructor provides education for the students on thermoregulation in the nursery. The students determine that in the healthy full-term neonate, heat production is accomplished by what?

Answer 1

Answer:

The students determine that in the healthy full-term neonate, heat production is accomplished by "metabolism of brown fat."

Explanation:

Brown fat breakdowns blood sugar (glucose) and fat particles to produce temperature and help sustain body temperature. Cold temperatures trigger brown fat, which leads to several metabolic fluctuations in the body. Furthermost of our fat, still, is white fat, which stores additional energy. Too plentiful white fat figures up in over weightiness. Traditional brown fat is found in extremely vascularized credits in slightly reliable anatomical sites, such as between the shoulder blades, surrounding the kidneys, the neck, and supraclavicular area, and along the spinal cord. This is the smaller of the two types and has numerous small lipid droplets.